The Cannes Film Festival announced the full make-up of the competition jury on Wednesday. Italian helmer-actor-producer Nanni Moretti will preside over an eclectic group including British thesp Ewan McGregor, German actress Diane Kruger, U.S. helmer Alexander Payne, Palestinian thesp-turned-helmer Hiam Abbass, British scribe-director Andrea Arnold, French actress Emmanuelle Devos, Gallic fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier and Haitian...

Start with a sex-mad baroness and her frisky menage a trois . Add in a stern German philosopher who fancied himself the next Friedriche Nietzsche, his mistress and a married couple who wanted a wholesome Swiss Family Robinson experience for their son. Throw them all together on one of the remotest spots on Earth and simmer until things come to a steamy boil. You couldn't make this stuff up, and, as a lively new documentary reports, you don't have to. "The Galapagos...

'Inglourious Basterds' . 1/2 A queasy historical do-over, Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" has been described as a grindhouse version of "Valkyrie"; a rhapsody dedicated to the cinema's powers of persuasion; and a showcase for a 52-year-old Austrian-born character actor named Christoph Waltz, who waltzes off with the performance honors as a suavely vicious Nazi colonel known as "the Jew hunter." All true. Tarantino's seventh...

Thanks to especially strong DVR playback, FX's "The Bridge" has become FX's third most-watched series premiere to date. In Nielsen's Live + 3 data, which is inclusive of viewership done via DVR within a show's first three days following its premiere telecast, the new Wednesday drama surged from 3.043 million to 4.643 million. This is the biggest jump FX has seen in L3, and it means "The Bridge" surpasses other recent drama premieres on the network, including "The Americans"...

Thanks to especially strong DVR playback, FX's "The Bridge" has become FX's third most-watched series premiere to date. In Nielsen's Live + 3 data, which is inclusive of viewership done via DVR within a show's first three days following its premiere telecast, the new Wednesday drama surged from 3.043 million to 4.643 million. This is the biggest jump FX has seen in L3, and it means "The Bridge" surpasses other recent drama premieres on the network, including "The Americans"...

"The Host" is for people who couldn't handle the whirlwind pace of events in the "Twilight" trilogy and who prefer a love triangle unafraid to redefine, for a new generation, the word "lollygag. " It features several shots of Diane Kruger (as a capital-S Seeker alien, middle-managing the takeover of Earth) standing around in the desert, next to her shiny alien sports car of the near future, waiting around for a stray human to show up and make her day. The film...

The most suspenseful sequence in "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" has the American treasure hunter played by Nicolas Cage masquerading as a local and haranguing a London bobby in Buckingham Palace. Your breathing becomes very rapid and your knuckles start to pale as you think: How many more lines can Cage keep it up with his idea of a Cockney dialect? Compare that scene to the big one near the end of this very draggy sequel. Cage (as Ben Gates), Jon Voight (as his pop), Diane...

"YOU WOULDN'T be able to do these awful things to me if I weren't still in this chair." "But'cha are, Blanche. Ya are in that chair." Well, even the most casual movie fan could not fail to recognize that famous exchange between invalid Joan Crawford and crazy-as-a-bedbug Bette Davis in the 1962 shocker, "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane." The movie, directed by Robert Aldrich, revitalized the careers of Miss Crawford and Miss Davis. Alas, they were...

Brit Alex Pettyfer is set to topline "Diamond Dogs," an English-language thriller by "Heartbreaker" director Pascal Chaumeil. It's the first English-lingo pic produced by Quad Films, the outfit run by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou and Laurent Zeitoun behind B.O. phenomenon "The Intouchables." Steven Chasman, whose credits include "Killer Elite" and "The Bank Job," is a co-producer on the film, an adaptation of a novel by Alan Watt. The Nevada-set pic will star...

Brit Alex Pettyfer is set to topline "Diamond Dogs," an English-language thriller by "Heartbreaker" director Pascal Chaumeil. It's the first English-lingo pic produced by Quad Films, the outfit run by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou and Laurent Zeitoun behind B.O. phenomenon "The Intouchables." Steven Chasman, whose credits include "Killer Elite" and "The Bank Job," is a co-producer on the film, an adaptation of a novel by Alan Watt. The Nevada-set pic will star...

Sleek and, until a stupidly violent climax, very entertaining, "Unknown" is the opposite of "Memento. " It's about a man who knows who he is but everybody around him has forgotten, or thinks he's delusional, or lying. In other words it's a metaphor for the film industry. Liam Neeson stars. Thanks in no small part to the popular 2008 revenge picture "Taken," Neeson needn't worry about being forgotten. He's a good actor and his own kind of action star. More subtly than Harrison Ford,...

The Cannes Film Festival announced the full make-up of the competition jury on Wednesday. Italian helmer-actor-producer Nanni Moretti will preside over an eclectic group including British thesp Ewan McGregor, German actress Diane Kruger, U.S. helmer Alexander Payne, Palestinian thesp-turned-helmer Hiam Abbass, British scribe-director Andrea Arnold, French actress Emmanuelle Devos, Gallic fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier and Haitian...

LOS ANGELES — She spent her early career in a variety of unremarkable supporting roles, but these days January Jones is best known for her Golden Globe- and Emmy-nominated performance as Betty Draper on the award-winning drama "Mad Men. " Now she's co-starring with Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger in the mystery/thriller "Unknown. " Q It must be nice to push the envelope a little as an actress and take on something so completely different than your TV job. Do you see it that way too?

LOS ANGELES — She spent her early career in a variety of unremarkable supporting roles, but these days January Jones is best known for her Golden Globe- and Emmy-nominated performance as Betty Draper on the award-winning drama "Mad Men. " Now she's co-starring with Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger in the mystery/thriller "Unknown. " Q It must be nice to push the envelope a little as an actress and take on something so completely different than your TV job. Do you see it that way too?

"YOU WOULDN'T be able to do these awful things to me if I weren't still in this chair." "But'cha are, Blanche. Ya are in that chair." Well, even the most casual movie fan could not fail to recognize that famous exchange between invalid Joan Crawford and crazy-as-a-bedbug Bette Davis in the 1962 shocker, "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane." The movie, directed by Robert Aldrich, revitalized the careers of Miss Crawford and Miss Davis. Alas, they were...

Sleek and, until a stupidly violent climax, very entertaining, "Unknown" is the opposite of "Memento. " It's about a man who knows who he is but everybody around him has forgotten, or thinks he's delusional, or lying. In other words it's a metaphor for the film industry. Liam Neeson stars. Thanks in no small part to the popular 2008 revenge picture "Taken," Neeson needn't worry about being forgotten. He's a good actor and his own kind of action star. More subtly than Harrison Ford,...

Start with a sex-mad baroness and her frisky menage a trois . Add in a stern German philosopher who fancied himself the next Friedriche Nietzsche, his mistress and a married couple who wanted a wholesome Swiss Family Robinson experience for their son. Throw them all together on one of the remotest spots on Earth and simmer until things come to a steamy boil. You couldn't make this stuff up, and, as a lively new documentary reports, you don't have to. "The Galapagos...

'Inglourious Basterds' . 1/2 A queasy historical do-over, Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" has been described as a grindhouse version of "Valkyrie"; a rhapsody dedicated to the cinema's powers of persuasion; and a showcase for a 52-year-old Austrian-born character actor named Christoph Waltz, who waltzes off with the performance honors as a suavely vicious Nazi colonel known as "the Jew hunter." All true. Tarantino's seventh...

"The Host" is for people who couldn't handle the whirlwind pace of events in the "Twilight" trilogy and who prefer a love triangle unafraid to redefine, for a new generation, the word "lollygag. " It features several shots of Diane Kruger (as a capital-S Seeker alien, middle-managing the takeover of Earth) standing around in the desert, next to her shiny alien sports car of the near future, waiting around for a stray human to show up and make her day. The film...

The most suspenseful sequence in "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" has the American treasure hunter played by Nicolas Cage masquerading as a local and haranguing a London bobby in Buckingham Palace. Your breathing becomes very rapid and your knuckles start to pale as you think: How many more lines can Cage keep it up with his idea of a Cockney dialect? Compare that scene to the big one near the end of this very draggy sequel. Cage (as Ben Gates), Jon Voight (as his pop), Diane...